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5 animated touches that make a v0, Cursor or Lovable app feel hand-built

DEV Community: nextjs·Teodor Avadani·1 day ago
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Pages generated by v0, Cursor or Lovable usually look fine in a screenshot. Click around, though, and nothing moves. The nav jumps from one link to the next, the cards are already sitting there when you scroll down, the numbers are just numbers, the theme switch is a checkbox with an icon, and an upload shows a spinner until it's done or broken.

Motion is the cheapest way I know to make a page feel like someone spent time on it. It's also easy to overdo, so this post sticks to five small things, each tied to something the visitor did: hovered, scrolled, clicked or dropped a file.

Earlier I wrote about the five design tells of an AI-built landing page (gradients, fonts, centring, fake product shots, dead buttons).…

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